Binding: later vellum (19th cent.?). Two spine labels with author and with place and date in gilt. Closely trimmed at top and in places at foredge, with minor losses

Owner's inscription on ill., p. [54]: Jno. Paynter his Booke. Arithmetic sums on ill. on last p

First published 1524 with blocks cut by Eustachio Celebrino. Expanded eds. in 1525. See A.S. Osley, Luminario, p. 18, 24

Imprint from colophon

"Il libro contiene dei modelli di Lettera cancellaresca, mercantesca, francesca, antiqua tonda, fiorentina, bollatica, imperiale, et gli alfabeti ebraico, persiano, e caldeo"--Bonacini 1807, describing 1st ed

Except for letterpress dedication on verso of 1st leaf, printed from woodcut blocks through p. [48], from there on largely in italic letterpress. Two full-page ill. depicting writing paraphernalia, p. [54], and an astronomer observing the heavens, p. [64]

Rectos of 2nd through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner (signatures?)

Leaf [22] verso printed upside down

Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie

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